Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SWEET NOSEGAY: TO TWO OF HER SISTER MISTERIS A.B., by ISABELLA WHITNEY Poet's Biography First Line: Because I to my brethern wrote, and to my sisters two Last Line: Your loving sister. Is. W. Subject(s): Marriage; Sisters; Weddings; Husbands; Wives | ||||||||
Because I to my Brethern wrote, and to my Sisters two: Good Sister Anne, you this might wote, yf so I should not doo To you or ere I parted hence, You vainely had bestowed expence. Yet is it not for that I write, for nature dyd you bynde: To doo mee good: and to requight, hath nature mee inclynde: Wherfore good Sister take in gree, These simple lynes that come from mee. Wherin I wish you Nestors dayes, in happye health to rest: With such successe in all assayes, as those which God hath blest: Your Husband with your prety Boyes, God keepe them free from all annoyes. And graunt if that my luck it bee, to linger heere so long: Til they be men: that I may see, for learning them so strong: That they may march amongst the best, Of them which learning have possest. By that tyme wyl my aged yeares perhaps a staffe require: And quakyngly as styll in feares, my lims draw to the fire: Yet joy I shall them so to see, Yf any joy in age there bee. Good Sister so I you commend, to him that made us all: I know you huswifery intend, though I to writing fall: Wherfore no lenger shal you stay, From businesse, that profit may. Had I a Husband, or a house, and all that longes therto My selfe could frame about to rouse, as other women doo: But til some houshold cares mee tye, My bookes and Pen I wyll apply. Your loving Sister. IS. W. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BLESSING FOR A WEDDING by JANE HIRSHFIELD A SUITE FOR MARRIAGE by DAVID IGNATOW ADVICE TO HER SON ON MARRIAGE by MARY BARBER THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD KISSING AGAIN by DORIANNE LAUX A TIME PAST by DENISE LEVERTOV A SWEET NOSEGAY: AUTHOR MAKETH HER WILL & TESTAMENT: A COMMUNICATION . by ISABELLA WHITNEY |
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